The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

-Sopchoppy is the name of Florida
town.
The man who undertakes the jour
ney of life without destination will
get lost in the woods. - Whitehall Times.
The policeman who never arrests
anybody but little boys might be called
variety of collarer infantum. Wash
tngton Critic.
MIR. Day recently married Miss
Week in Minneapolis. He probably
went on the theory that week was
worth more than day Chicago Jour
nal
r-Vagrant-"Why are YOU here in
the dock?" Sharper-''For raising q
check. Why are you here9" Vagrant
because | couldn't raise one. -
Boston Budget
The lnnermOst, uneXpresSed thought
of every man is about this: IF every
other man had been created as nearly
right as am. the millennium might come
almost any day. "-DonSviIle Breeze.
AT st. Augustine, Fla, a few days
since A. N. Lopez, while at work tear
ing down Misson's building on St.
George street, found an old-fashioned
pistol imbedded in the walls. 1t is OF
queer design and undoubtedly of great
age.
The house in which Isaiah Colby
and his wife were murdered at Cherry
Run, Pa, is nearly cut to pieces by
relic hunters, and one of them has the
shoes taken from Colby after the muir
der on exhibition in his store at Lock
Haven.
The Pan Yam mine near Helena,
M. T., is one of the richest of recent
strikes in the Territory. 1t was dis
covered by John Waulshagan, a la
borer During the last two weeks in
August 81, 1000 worth of ore was taken
out of he mine.
N. H. Wilson, of MERGED, Cal, has
just received some Egyptian wheat
5000 years old, which was found in the
coffin of an Egyptian prince, while I'M
rolling the mummy. Prof. Gilden, of
Boston, brought the wheat to the United
States in 1850.
Sweet Pickles: Ten pounds of
fruit, four pounds of sugar, one quart
of vinegar, four ounces cinnamon, one
ounce cloves. Boil fruit tender and
drain, scald vinegar and spices together
three mornings and pour on hot.
Boston Budget.
Omaha Dame (reading) - 'The
King has just begun suit for divorce
against his wife, Chicago Dame
81 didn't hear the first part. What
King?" The King of the Society
Islands," 80, | often wondered why
they were called Society Islands. y
Omaha World
For some time it was thought a
ghost had taken up its abode in Frey S
mine, near Brownsville, Pa, and timor.
GUS miners gave its quarters wide
berth. II was discovered that bull
calf with long chain on its neck had
wandered in there to get away from the
flies and was unable to find its way out.
Omaha Invalid-''O, dear, so the
doctor has sent me some more pills. -
Husband 'Pills?" Eyes; didn't he
tell you what they were? Tn sure by
their looks they are blue mass pills, too.
But how big they are Great Escu-
lapius! Are you talking about the con-
tents of that box! sent you that my
self. They are not pills, they are new
peaches, Omaha World.
Sharks are accused of causing the
great scarcity of soft era BIS in the waters
hereabout this summer. They are I'M
usually numerous and bold, and may
be seen any day swimming about on
the flats, exploring the water-grass with
their blunt noses, They 90 into the
coves that are shedding-places of crabs
and destroy all the soft ones they can
find. Baltimore Sun.
The gathering of hundreds of B-mar-
tins in and around the public squares
every day at Martinsville. Henry
County, Va, has excited no little curl
osity lately. An examination has dis
closed the fact that they were making
deliberate and apparently systematic
war upon the English sparrows. tho
victory invariably remaining with the
martins. They have now, it is said.
literally whipped the sparrows out OF
the place.
The subject OF spiders IS an ex-
tremely interesting one, and may be
followed with much profit in the way OF
amusing information. One of the curl
Gus points is the difference in the sexes.
Van Hasselt has made the amusing
calculation that if the same difference
in size existed between man and woman
rs we find in the sexes of spiders a man
six feet high and weighing $50 pounds
could not lind partner less than sew
enty-fiFe feet in height or weighing Less
than two hundred thousand pounds.
Mr.. Eric Bruce, who has worked
out the idea of signaling at night by
captive balloon lighted inside by cleo
trio incandescent lamps, has just COM
plcted one for the Belgian government.
Mr.. Bruce's latest ballon is fifteen feet
in diameter and 1000 cubic feet in
capacity. 1t is made of vanished